will not only help the small business owners themselves, it'll keep the workers on the job, bring back tax revenue for local governments to repair, rebuild and restore a sense of normalcy for our commitments. we already were at over 9% unemployment before the storm, and if history teaches us anything from hurricane katrina, it is that unemployment dramatically rose subsequently. that is a big challenge. to economically rebuild new jersey, we also need to rebuild thier is si shore, and that is -- that's a $38 billion tourism economy in our state. and the jersey shore isn't just about summer homes. that sometimes is, you know, a huge misconception. it has been transformed into year-round communities. the next two slides show the importance of some of what senator schumer was talking about, army corps on our shoreline. stockton college did a study of the army corps' beach engineering programs before and after the storm, and what it found was unambiguous. where the army corps was able to complete a beach-engineered project, the dunes held. and the damage to commitments behind -- to communities